Rumsfeld tells war critics to 'back off' ...

[and-justice-for-all]

I say then to Rummy Dummy FUCK OFF!!

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday that anyone demanding deadlines for progress in Iraq should "just back off," because it is too difficult to predict when Iraqis will resume control of their country.

During an often-combative Pentagon news conference, Rumsfeld said that while benchmarks for security, political and economic progress are valuable, "it's difficult. We're looking out into the future. No one can predict the future with absolute certainty."

He said the goals have no specific deadlines or consequences if they are not met by specific dates.

"You're looking for some sort of a guillotine to come falling down if some date isn't met," Rumsfeld told reporters. "That is not what this is about."

His comments came less than two weeks before an election for control of Congress in which the Bush administration's conduct of the war has become a defining issue. They also came two days after a timeline was first announced by U.S. officials in Baghdad and underscored strains that have emerged between the two countries.

Bush administration officials said Tuesday that they and Iraqi leaders had agreed to craft guidelines toward progress in the country. The next day, Iraq's prime minister disavowed them, saying the benchmarks merely reflected campaign season pressures in the U.S.


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[liberal N proud]

1. Rummy is as delusional as bu$h

I watched part of that presser last night on CSPAN replay, He and bu$h should be put in the same rubber room. They can then bounce off the walls and each other.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Rummy's had longer than WWII

to clean up Bush's mess....
and it's still a mess.

Time's up.

[malaise]

3. The fugging nerve of

these war criminals.

[dbt]

4. So the jackoff says back off!

:rofl:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

[orpupilofnature57]

6. And, Relax don't do it, when you wanna think!

[MADem]

5. Shitty headline. Reporters who finally grew a spine get up and ask

entirely reasonable, and logical, and POINTED questions about the clusterfuck Rummy's running over there, and suddenly, because they are no longer cheerleaders, instead the headline characterizes them as "war critics?"

[Recursion]

7. Wasn't this an Onion article?

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52106